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FEATURE WITH LINDA LAEL MILLER,AUTHOR OF “A LAWMAN’S CHRISTMAS”…

Each morning shortly after the sun rises over Spokane, Washington, New
York Times bestselling author Linda Lael Miller pulls on her cowboy boots
and heads for the stables for a few quiet moments with her horses before she
settles in to write her pages for the day.

As the daughter of a town marshal, Linda has come home to the western
lifestyle that gave birth to one of today’s most successful authors. The
self-confessed barn goddess left Washington years ago and pursued her
wanderlust, living in Arizona and London and traveling the world. Now the author
of more than 100 novels, the “First Lady of the West” is glad to be back home,
writing contemporary and historical stories that have earned her awards and
placements on all the national bestsellers lists.

Linda traces the birth of her writing career to the day when a Northport
teacher told her that the stories she was writing were good, that she just might
have a future in writing. Later, when she decided to write novels, she endured
her share of rejection before she sold Fletcher’s
Woman in 1983 to Pocket Books. Since then, Linda has successfully
published historicals, contemporaries, paranormals, and thrillers before coming
home, in a literal sense, and concentrating on novels with a Western flavor. For
her devotion to her craft, the Romance Writers of America awarded her their
prestigious Nora Roberts Lifetime Achievement Award in 2007.

Linda’s 2011 contemporary Creed Cowboy trilogy—A Creed in Stone
Creek, Creed’s Honor and The
Creed Legacy, released in March, June and July, respectively—each
debuted in the number one position on the New York Times bestseller
list.

Love comes home for the holidays in a brand-new McKettrick
tale from New York Times bestselling author Linda Lael Miller

The sudden death of the town marshal leaves Blue River, Texas, without a
lawman…and twenty-five-year-old Dara Rose Nolan without a husband. As winter
approaches and her meager seamstress income dwindles, she has three options. Yet
she won’t give up her two young daughters, refuses to join the fallen women of
the Bitter Gulch Saloon and can’t fathom condemning herself to another loveless
marriage. Unfortunately she must decide—soon—because there’s a new marshal in
town, and she’s living under his roof.

With the heart of a cowboy, Clay McKettrick plans to start a ranch and
finally settle down. He isn’t interested in uprooting Dara Rose and her
children, but he is interested in giving her protection, friendship—and
passion. And when they say “I do” to a marriage of convenience, the temporary
lawman’s Christmas wish is to make Dara Rose his permanent wife…

To win his father’s ranch, a hard-living cowboy settles down and takes a
wife—another man’s wife!

The youngest McKettrick brother, Jeb, is the wild one who never could stay
out of trouble. And trouble is what he gets when he proposes to Chloe Wakefield.
No sooner had he and the pretty schoolteacher tied the knot than Jeb discovers
she’s already married! After a major dustup with Chloe in a Tombstone barroom, an irate Jeb hightails it back to the Triple M Ranch, certain that his chances of winning the spread in a marriage race with his brothers are dashed.

Now Chloe has come to Indian Rock, hoping to find her beloved Uncle John and a much-needed teaching post. But when she unexpectedly crosses paths with Jeb, her rage—and passion—flare even stronger than back in Tombstone. Chloe never intended to mislead Jeb about her previous marriage to a scoundrel of a man. But
when she finds out Jeb needs a bride and a baby in order to inherit the Triple M, she is livid.

Learning to trust will be the hardest part of this mixed-up marriage—until a stagecoach robbery and the return of a dangerous stranger prove to Jeb and Chloe that they need each other to love and honor as long as they both shall live.

Stone Creek veterinarian Olivia O’Ballivan communicates easily with animals, but men are another story. Especially rugged architect-turned-rancher Tanner Quinn. Olivia’s uncanny bond with his daughter Sophie’s pony, Butterpie, has him questioning her sanity, while she wonders if he’s not just a drugstore cowboy.
Then twelve-year-old Sophie conspires with Olivia to get Tanner into the spirit of Christmas with all the trimmings, including a tree-lighting ceremony and a man named Kris Kringle in a sleigh driven by seven reindeer…and a donkey. But will a holiday miracle transform the globe-trotting Tanner into a rancher—and
family man—for all seasons?

At Home in Stone Creek

Everyone in Ashley O’Ballivan’s life is marrying and starting families—except her. But what date can compare to Jack McCall, the man who broke her heart years ago?

And now he’s mysteriously back. But he isn’t who she thinks he is.

After a dangerous mission working for the DEA, security expert Jack McCall rents a room in Ashley’s bed-and-breakfast. For her sake, he must keep his distance. But his feelings for her are so powerful that only his heart remains off-limits. To protect her—from his enemies and himself—he has to leave…vowing to fight his way home to her and Stone Creek forever.